The markets surged to a sharply higher close with the Dow jumping 228 points to 16,599 ahead of the Federal Reserve policy meeting. Nasdaq leaped 54 points to 4,860.
On the upside
TheStreet noted that Real Goods Solar (Nasdaq: RGSE) was one of three stocks under $10 that was breaking out with strong upside potential.
Zacks Equity Research identified AxoGen (NYSE: AXGN) as an impressive momentum stock.
Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) will release third quarter results on Wednesday, October 14, 2015.
On the downside
Unilife (Nasdaq: UNIS) widened losses for the fourth quarter.
Shares of Energy Focus (Nasdaq: EFOI) continued falling.
Host Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: HST) stock price dropped again.
In the broad market, advancing issues outpaced decliners by a margin of more than 2 to 1 on both the NYSE and on Nasdaq. The broader S&P 500 leaped 25 points to 1,978. Bitcoin slipped $1 to $228.
Markets soar ahead of Fed meeting
September 15, 2015 at 18:04 PM EDT